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« on: November 21, 2011, 01:14:12 AM » |
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« edited: November 21, 2011, 01:16:44 AM by Ironic Newt Gingrich Supporter »
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There are some problems, of course. One, France and Germany are both almost certain to elect left-wing governments of some sort at their next elections, although admittedly there is still time for the right in both countries to recover. Britain also looks inclined to elect a left-wing government, though that election is far in the future (but, then again, Britain only just came out of 13 years of rule by a left-wing party yet looks ready to run back to them, hardly signs of the right's strength). Italy may also elect a left-wing government, though politics there are in flux. At the least, though, the government in Italy is now of neither the right nor the left, and given the impending election, characterizing them as right-wing is not useful. Also, some of the left-right characterizations are just not useful for understanding a country's politics--thinking of Ireland and Poland in particular here (might be true of some other Eastern European countries as well, but I'm less familiar with their politics). Also, their characterization of Greece seems... overly generous to the right (new coalition is not "center-right", at least not in partisanship), especially given the current situation in Italy and polling in other major countries (France, in particular, with elections also next year).
Overall, a snapshot in time that is true in the abstract but not at all useful for a statement that the right is "dominating" when most of the major right-wing governments on that map look ready to lose the next election.
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